Aid Pledge

July 13, 1985

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — The United States will give more military aid to its friends in Southeast Asia and will support efforts to get Vietnamese troops out of Cambodia, Secretary of State George Shultz informed the Association of Southeast Asian nations Friday. He also urged war on international terrorism and drug trafficking. The text of the speech was released, but Shultz did not read it. He said he wanted more time for a meeting between the major Western nations and the ASEAN countries, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei. The secretary of state later left for Australia for a meeting of ANZUS, created in 1951. It will be the first time that New Zealand has not attended. The absence stems from New Zealand's refusal to allow calls at its ports by U.S. warships that are nuclear powered or armed.